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Originally posted by: amdskip
I've noticed here lately that my computer will automatically restart at night when I'm not using after installing updates that I have clicked no to restarting at that time.
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It's a "feature"

I think mine does it around 2am or 3am.

I was writing a report last week and I told it about 15 times not to restart after it decided it would be a good time since I had been idle for 5 minutes or something doing some reading for info to put in the paper.
 
Originally posted by: lnguyen
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: rdubbz420
dont you people run security updates?
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Yes, they're automatically rolled out here at work. Guess we haven't had one that requires rebooting for a while.
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uh... the last two have require rebooting... unless there's a way to have it pushed out w/o rebooting.
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There is, it just doesn't work until it's rebooted.
 
Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Originally posted by: lnguyen
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: rdubbz420
dont you people run security updates?
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Yes, they're automatically rolled out here at work. Guess we haven't had one that requires rebooting for a while.
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uh... the last two have require rebooting... unless there's a way to have it pushed out w/o rebooting.
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There is, it just doesn't work until it's rebooted.
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Hm, maybe somebody broke it or turned it off, I know there were at least one or two earlier this year where it automatically rebooted for us.
 
I have a power edge that's been sitting on the rack since feburary, completley unconfigured, not even plugged into the rack... just on and idle. It would be more effort than it would be worth to get a screenshot from it....
 
I don't have proof that there are memory leaks (still always have at least 500MB RAM free) but I swear my proggies will eventually start taking longer to load and some stutter during processing after a few days. I run a lot of multimedia recording / encoding stuff almost everyday so it's heavy on the system. A reboot at least once a week seems necessary for me.
 
Originally posted by: lnguyen
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: rdubbz420
dont you people run security updates?
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Yes, they're automatically rolled out here at work. Guess we haven't had one that requires rebooting for a while.
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uh... the last two have require rebooting... unless there's a way to have it pushed out w/o rebooting.
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There's not. MS05-053 replaces win32k.sys. Not a chance that you can install it without rebooting.

Your bragging about such an uptime tells us that your computer isn't secure.
 
Originally posted by: rh71
I don't have proof that there are memory leaks (still always have at least 500MB RAM free) but I swear my proggies will eventually start taking longer to load and some stutter during processing after a few days. I run a lot of multimedia recording / encoding stuff almost everyday so it's heavy on the system. A reboot at least once a week seems necessary for me.
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I use Ram Def XT to clear that stuff up.
 
Originally posted by: NogginBoink
Originally posted by: lnguyen
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: rdubbz420
dont you people run security updates?
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Yes, they're automatically rolled out here at work. Guess we haven't had one that requires rebooting for a while.
Click to expand...

uh... the last two have require rebooting... unless there's a way to have it pushed out w/o rebooting.
Click to expand...

There's not. MS05-053 replaces win32k.sys. Not a chance that you can install it without rebooting.

Your bragging about such an uptime tells us that your computer isn't secure.
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So?
It tells you that someone on my network management team isn't doing their job.
 
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